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Chad, technical is good and you're quite right. The merger of Massey-Harris with Ferguson occurred in 1953. I'm modelling '54 - '56, so I think there could very well be a mixture of older and newer signs. I already have a Massey Harris sign on the clerestory roof building, and another building...

Interesting Triplex. I always assumed that 7069 was an Alco S-3. Val

DUUUUUUUUDE! I missed you too. It's great to be back and working on the layout again. :D :D Val

There may be hobby shops taking pre-orders but there is also the disturbing trend of manufacturers doing the same thing, and only producing as many units as they have pre-orders for. I can see how this benefits the manufacturer, as they will never have any unsold inventory. But please tell me...

Yep, after a busy summer getting outside, having friends come to town, camping, quick trip to brother's cottage, I am finally getting back to my layout again too. I'm glad I put down all the sub-roadbed earlier in the year, because that means I can get straight into tracklaying. WHOOO-HOOOO...

No probs Andrew. I will have to do some digging for those articles. There's a fairly large area left on the layout (a peninsula) that I haven't totally figured out what to do with yet and I'm looking for ideas. Val

Wow - that's cool Andrew. Any chance of some pix? Val

It also depends on the material your structure is made of. If brick, it will darken over the years due to soot, smoke, exhaust in the air. The effect will be very even all over the structure, so you would probably just use a darker paint to begin with. If wood, the ravages of time will...

Thank-you Gary and Josh. Josh, that's the Walther's machine shop - a nice kit IMO. The dark brick building with the clerestory window is the molding shop - where they do castings for some of the parts. Meanwhile, it's 2 steps forward and 1 back. I discovered a huge gap between the turnout and...

Thanks Ed. Well, I spent the day hard at work - and it really did feel like work too. 7 hours of soldering, cutting, filing, and gouging fingers with rail joiners later I have finished laying all the track in the yard. At last, I have the yard back almost to where it was before I tore out...

Great shots everyone!! :thumb: I don't have anything new to post, so here's an oldie but a goodie: the Businessman's Special pulling into Toronto from Buffalo. A CPR train using a NYC engine from the pool in Buffalo. Val

Wayne, someone should do a book of your railroad stories! They're so realistic that they almost seem like one of Ian Wilson's books. Not to mention the gorgeous eye candy!! :goldcup: :goldcup: :goldcup: :goldcup: :goldcup: Val

Thanks very much for all the kind words everyone, it's very inspiring! Ralph, to answer your question about the bridge, to its left you can just see the city part of the layout. The bridge is for the main road coming out of the city and over the yard. That is, if I can manage to get the road...

I spent the day working on the yard, soldering wired rail joiners, fitting track etc. In the first photo we're looking east along the CN and CP mainline. CP is the inner track, but there's an interchange with CN. The yard is above. In the second photo, we're looking west. The track at the...

I just took a jar of the local dirt to my neighbourhood hardware store and they mixed the paint from that. Looks pretty good too! Val

Here's one I scanned from a slide. Wish it were better.

I think that by the 50s things had changed somewhat, and towards the end of the steam era, a lot of former passenger engines were pulling freight. Those are some beautiful engines Nutbar and Wayne!! BTW, I heard that True Line Trains are releasing a series of Northers, some with smoke...

Yep! It's more or less the same design as the old one, but with better turnouts. Have the track positioned, but not yet layed. Thanks for asking Ralph. Val

Here's one from my old layout, since torn out.

Yep, I totally agree. Sorry to hear about your troubles with the long arm of beaurocracy - sometimes I really can't understand what those pencil pushers are thinking. Hope you get it all sorted out ASAP. Good luck!!! Val